Participants Seeking Positions
The following women seek faculty or postdoctoral positions to begin in 2025. We provide this listing for informational purposes only. The listing is not exhaustive (candidates are listed by their request), and information is provided by the candidates themselves. Click on a candidate's name to be linked to her website. If you would like to be listed as a job candidate on our site, or would like to change or remove your listing, please complete this form. If you have any questions, feel free to contact WICS.
Kristen Aanstoos, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2024)
Dissertation: Local Voices at the Table: How Participation in Peace Processes Shapes Women's Political Empowerment
Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, (Ph.D., Georgia State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Choosing the Lesser Evil: Tribal Alignments in Civil Wars
Emine Ari, (Ph.D., Koc University, Istanbul, 2022)
Dissertation: State of emergency and international alignment behaviors: Origins and implications
Jennifer Barnes, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Competing Accountability for Coercive State Agent Abuses
Isabella Bellezza, (Ph.D., Brown University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Blurring the Line: The global transformation of border control in the fight against illicit trade
Nahrain Bet-Younadam, (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2022)
Dissertation: Explaining Ethnic Protests: Territorial Autonomy and Executive Representation on Ethnic Mobilization
Richa Bhattarai, (Ph.D., Kennesaw State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Containment or Alignment in Foreign Policy? Analyzing Conditions for U.S.-Iran Convergence in Counterterrorism Diplomacy for Middle Eastern Stability
Polly Cegielski, (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2023)
Dissertation: Security, Gender and Power: NATO’s advising program in Afghanistan
Stephanie Char, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey: Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion by China
Kaitlyn Chriswell, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2023)
Dissertation: Do criminal groups make or break citizens?: How criminal organization presence affects citizen-state interactions
Natalie Chwalisz, (Ph.D., American University, 2024)
Dissertation: Resilience in the Face of Peril: Three papers on Clandestine Migration
Sara Daub, (Ph.D., Hertie School, 2024)
Dissertation: External Diaspora Support to Rebel Organizations - Causes and Consequences
Perisa Davutoglu, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Should they stay or should they go? Understanding the relationship between refugee flows and political survival of leaders
Onyinyechukwu Durueke, (Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2015)
Dissertation: Experiences and Coping Mechanisms of Women in Post-Conflict Benue and Taraba State, Nigeria
Madeline (Madie) Fleishman, (Ph.D., University of Maryland, expected 2025)
Dissertation: How International Organizations Cooperate for Conflict Management and its Outcomes
Elizabeth Good, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Willing and Able: Power Dynamics and Women’s Representation in Peace Processes
Nichole Grossman, (Ph.D., American University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Addressing Chronic Health Needs By Leveraging Social Networks in Internal Displacement Camps in Nigeria
Alexis G. Jenson, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Gender, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Latife Kınay Kılıç, (Ph.D., Bilkent University, 2024)
Dissertation: How do States Respond to External Support of Rebel Groups? The Response to Sponsorship Dataset (RSD) and Determinants of Target Responses
Myung Jung Kim, (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Negotiating Justice, Rebel Behaviors, and War Outcomes in the Era of Accountability
Jiyoung Kim, (Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Drought of Tolerance: Climate Change and Intergroup Conflict in Africa
Saera Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2023)
Dissertation: How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination
Shanshan Lian, (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2023)
Dissertation: The Dynamics and Effects of the "Closing Space" of Civil Society
Veronica Lion, (Ph.D., Bar Ilan University, 2024)
Dissertation: New perspectives on contemporary women’s peace movements in Israel – the case study of Women Wage Peace
Carly Millerd, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Networks of Women’s Civil Society Organizations during Civil Wars
Markéta Odlová, (Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, 2024)
Dissertation: The Impact of Military Recruitment Policies on Gender and Ethnic Relations
Ojashwi Pathak, (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, expected 2025)
Dissertation: When Quotas Collide with Institutions: Multiple Ranked Identities and Electoral Outcomes for Marginalized Groups
Ana Paula Pellegrino, (Ph.D., Georgetown University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: The Warrior’s Paradox: The Rise of Parapolice Groups in Brazil
Autumn Perkey, (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Superordinate Identities: National Identity, Emotions, and Wartime Public Opinion
Annamaria Prati, (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Building State Capacity Locally: International Interventions and Local Governance in Fragile States
Manaswini Ramkumar, (Ph.D., School of International Service, American University, 2024)
Dissertation: Call of Duty: Military Responses to Undemocratic Civilian Leadership
Alisson Rowland, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Sex Worker Activism and the Regulatory Liminality of Rights
Anntiana Maral Sabeti, (Ph.D., Arizona State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Understanding the Omission of Women and Gender in Peacebuilding post UNSCR 1325
Hatti Sellers, (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Framed by Exclusion: Gender Disparities in DDR Programs
Sally Sharif, (Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2021)
Dissertation: Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels
Kimberly Shella, (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Crisis Candidacies: Electoral Losses, Ethnic Protests, Party Scandals and the Rise and Decline of Non-Western Leaders, Ministers, and Candidates in the West
Madeleine Stevens, (Ph.D., University of Chicago, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Weaponizing Uncertainty: The Politics of Disappearance in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico
Angie Torres-Beltran, (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State
Nevena Trajkov, (Ph.D., Florida International University, 2023)
Dissertation: The Paradox of Accommodation: Minority Groups and Risks to Democratic Consolidation
Cigdem Unal, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Terrorism and Political Behavior: Country Level, Individual Level, and Party Level Analysis
Taylor Vincent, (Ph.D., University of Maryland, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Political Elite Competition and Post-Conflict Gender Equality
Wendy Wagner, (Ph.D., University of California San Diego, expected 2025)
Dissertation: No War, Yet No Peace: How States and Armed Groups Coexist
Charmaine N. Willis, (Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY, 2023)
Dissertation: Right Frame, Right Time: A Study of Anti-American Military Base Protests in East Asia
Nicola Williams, (Ph.D., Australian National University, 2024)
Dissertation: How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
Chaeyoung Yong, (Ph.D., University of St Andrews, 2023)
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Anger in Protests and Security Debates in Japan (1948-1960)
Gladys Zubiria, (Ph.D., Rice University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Giving Peace a Chance: The Role of Third Parties in Promoting a Just and Lasting Peace
Dissertation: Local Voices at the Table: How Participation in Peace Processes Shapes Women's Political Empowerment
Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, (Ph.D., Georgia State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Choosing the Lesser Evil: Tribal Alignments in Civil Wars
Emine Ari, (Ph.D., Koc University, Istanbul, 2022)
Dissertation: State of emergency and international alignment behaviors: Origins and implications
Jennifer Barnes, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Competing Accountability for Coercive State Agent Abuses
Isabella Bellezza, (Ph.D., Brown University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Blurring the Line: The global transformation of border control in the fight against illicit trade
Nahrain Bet-Younadam, (Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2022)
Dissertation: Explaining Ethnic Protests: Territorial Autonomy and Executive Representation on Ethnic Mobilization
Richa Bhattarai, (Ph.D., Kennesaw State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Containment or Alignment in Foreign Policy? Analyzing Conditions for U.S.-Iran Convergence in Counterterrorism Diplomacy for Middle Eastern Stability
Polly Cegielski, (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2023)
Dissertation: Security, Gender and Power: NATO’s advising program in Afghanistan
Stephanie Char, (Ph.D., Columbia University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey: Effectiveness of Countercriticism Coercion by China
Kaitlyn Chriswell, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2023)
Dissertation: Do criminal groups make or break citizens?: How criminal organization presence affects citizen-state interactions
Natalie Chwalisz, (Ph.D., American University, 2024)
Dissertation: Resilience in the Face of Peril: Three papers on Clandestine Migration
Sara Daub, (Ph.D., Hertie School, 2024)
Dissertation: External Diaspora Support to Rebel Organizations - Causes and Consequences
Perisa Davutoglu, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Should they stay or should they go? Understanding the relationship between refugee flows and political survival of leaders
Onyinyechukwu Durueke, (Ph.D., University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2015)
Dissertation: Experiences and Coping Mechanisms of Women in Post-Conflict Benue and Taraba State, Nigeria
Madeline (Madie) Fleishman, (Ph.D., University of Maryland, expected 2025)
Dissertation: How International Organizations Cooperate for Conflict Management and its Outcomes
Elizabeth Good, (Ph.D., Northwestern University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Willing and Able: Power Dynamics and Women’s Representation in Peace Processes
Nichole Grossman, (Ph.D., American University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Addressing Chronic Health Needs By Leveraging Social Networks in Internal Displacement Camps in Nigeria
Alexis G. Jenson, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Gender, Sexuality, and the Aesthetics of Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Latife Kınay Kılıç, (Ph.D., Bilkent University, 2024)
Dissertation: How do States Respond to External Support of Rebel Groups? The Response to Sponsorship Dataset (RSD) and Determinants of Target Responses
Myung Jung Kim, (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Negotiating Justice, Rebel Behaviors, and War Outcomes in the Era of Accountability
Jiyoung Kim, (Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Drought of Tolerance: Climate Change and Intergroup Conflict in Africa
Saera Lee, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2023)
Dissertation: How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination
Shanshan Lian, (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2023)
Dissertation: The Dynamics and Effects of the "Closing Space" of Civil Society
Veronica Lion, (Ph.D., Bar Ilan University, 2024)
Dissertation: New perspectives on contemporary women’s peace movements in Israel – the case study of Women Wage Peace
Carly Millerd, (Ph.D., University of Iowa, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Networks of Women’s Civil Society Organizations during Civil Wars
Markéta Odlová, (Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, 2024)
Dissertation: The Impact of Military Recruitment Policies on Gender and Ethnic Relations
Ojashwi Pathak, (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, expected 2025)
Dissertation: When Quotas Collide with Institutions: Multiple Ranked Identities and Electoral Outcomes for Marginalized Groups
Ana Paula Pellegrino, (Ph.D., Georgetown University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: The Warrior’s Paradox: The Rise of Parapolice Groups in Brazil
Autumn Perkey, (Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Superordinate Identities: National Identity, Emotions, and Wartime Public Opinion
Annamaria Prati, (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Building State Capacity Locally: International Interventions and Local Governance in Fragile States
Manaswini Ramkumar, (Ph.D., School of International Service, American University, 2024)
Dissertation: Call of Duty: Military Responses to Undemocratic Civilian Leadership
Alisson Rowland, (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Sex Worker Activism and the Regulatory Liminality of Rights
Anntiana Maral Sabeti, (Ph.D., Arizona State University, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Understanding the Omission of Women and Gender in Peacebuilding post UNSCR 1325
Hatti Sellers, (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Framed by Exclusion: Gender Disparities in DDR Programs
Sally Sharif, (Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2021)
Dissertation: Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels
Kimberly Shella, (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Crisis Candidacies: Electoral Losses, Ethnic Protests, Party Scandals and the Rise and Decline of Non-Western Leaders, Ministers, and Candidates in the West
Madeleine Stevens, (Ph.D., University of Chicago, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Weaponizing Uncertainty: The Politics of Disappearance in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico
Angie Torres-Beltran, (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Gender, Violence, and the State
Nevena Trajkov, (Ph.D., Florida International University, 2023)
Dissertation: The Paradox of Accommodation: Minority Groups and Risks to Democratic Consolidation
Cigdem Unal, (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, expected 2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Terrorism and Political Behavior: Country Level, Individual Level, and Party Level Analysis
Taylor Vincent, (Ph.D., University of Maryland, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Political Elite Competition and Post-Conflict Gender Equality
Wendy Wagner, (Ph.D., University of California San Diego, expected 2025)
Dissertation: No War, Yet No Peace: How States and Armed Groups Coexist
Charmaine N. Willis, (Ph.D., University at Albany, SUNY, 2023)
Dissertation: Right Frame, Right Time: A Study of Anti-American Military Base Protests in East Asia
Nicola Williams, (Ph.D., Australian National University, 2024)
Dissertation: How Civil Wars End: The Influence of Rebel Groups
Chaeyoung Yong, (Ph.D., University of St Andrews, 2023)
Dissertation: The Dynamics of Anger in Protests and Security Debates in Japan (1948-1960)
Gladys Zubiria, (Ph.D., Rice University, expected 2025)
Dissertation: Giving Peace a Chance: The Role of Third Parties in Promoting a Just and Lasting Peace